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Norway – The Road To Nordkapp

Norway – The Road To Nordkapp

Inari ( Finland ) is only a short hop across Hwy 92 to the Norwegian border at Karasjok. From there it was only a 4 hour drive to the very top of Europe - to some a mystical place, to the Sami people of this region a place of spiritual significance, and to many others...

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Finland

Finland

After the ( almost ) micro-states of the Baltics, Finland loomed large on the map of Europe. Like the Baltic countries, a place with its own distinctive culture and language ( and some incredibly long place names ! ) it has also been controlled by others over its...

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The Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia

The Baltic States: Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia

While Poland spent 45 years under the Soviet sphere of influence, the three Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were actually part of the Soviet union during that same period - an unwilling part mind you, but nonetheless an integral part of the former...

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Poland

Poland

Our only previous experience of Poland was in early 1986 when we ( very briefly ) transitted the country on a train from London to Shanghai. It was January, hence cold and dreary, and despite the early stirrings of “Solidarity”, Poland was still firmly in the “Eastern...

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Germany To Poland, via  Czechia

Germany To Poland, via Czechia

From Celle we continued south-east towards Dresden, a cultural mecca which had for 45 Cold-War years been under the yolk of Soviet directed communism. One is reminded of that terrible era when driving to Dresden as you pass through the town of Marienborn, one of the...

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Germany: Van Collection & First Impressions

Germany: Van Collection & First Impressions

There must have been quite the tailwind pushing us north as we departed Mauritius - our scheduled 12 hour flight to Frankfurt, Germany only took 11 hours. The hour saving really only translated into a longer layover in Frankfurt, though, as we still had the connection...

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Jeff + Lois

Jeff + Lois

The PanAm completed in April, 2022 and with the truck camper sold, we shipped our new Sprinter van to Australia in late 2022. We travelled there through all of 2023 and into 2024 before shipping it up to North East Asia where we travelled for 4 months between Korea and Japan, before shipping it back to North America. It’s our plan to continue exploring the world in 2025.

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